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March 17 – United States – Blackshear, Georgia: Most of the West India Fast Mail Train from New York City to Jacksonville, Florida was wrecked when two-thirds of a 300-foot-long (91 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) trestle collapsed. A broken rail under the lead baggage car caused it to come off the tracks.
March – United States – Deerfield, Illinois. A locomotive boiler explodes killing one and injuring three. [4] April 12 – United States – New York City: On the 6th Av. elevated line of the IRT company, one train takes a crossover into a track occupied by another knocking one car down to the street. One person is killed and 12 injured.
[a] The second worst, and the worst in England's peacetime history, was the 1952 Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash, which killed 112 people and injured 340. [1] The death toll from the 1957 Lewisham rail crash was 90; for the 1889 Armagh rail disaster (the worst in Northern Ireland) it was 80; [2] and for the 1879 Tay Bridge disaster it was 75.
1892 Thirsk rail crash November 2 – United Kingdom – Thirsk rail crash, Thirsk, Yorkshire, England: a signalman suffering from distress and lack of sleep due to a family emergency forgot about a freight train standing outside his signal box. Eight people were killed and 39 injured.
The Cartography of York is the history of surveying and creation of maps of the city of York. The following is a list of historic maps of York: c.1610: John Speed's map [1] 1624: Samuel Parsons' map of Dringhouses [2] c1682: Captain James Archer's Plan of the Greate, Antient & Famous Citty of York [3]
17 March – United Kingdom – The boiler of a London, Brighton and South Coast Railway locomotive explodes at Brighton, East Sussex. [59] 27 March – United States – Wheeling rail disaster – A loose rail results in two Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger cars tumbling down a cliff in West Virginia. 8 to 17 die and 39 are wounded. [60 ...
March 29 – United States – Amherst, Ohio: An overnight New York Central Railroad express eastbound from Chicago to Pittsburgh was operating in two sections; when the first was stopped by a signal, the second one ran into it at 50 mph (80 km/h), the wreckage fouled the next track, and the westbound 20th Century Limited, also at 50 mph, ran ...
The Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad (SR&RL) was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge common carrier railroad that operated approximately 112 miles (180 km) of track in Franklin County, Maine. The former equipment from the SR&RL continues to operate in the present day on a revived, short segment of the railway in Phillips, Maine .